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Bear with me here. 🙄
Today I visited a large City hospital that has a shopping mall but I'm not going to get started on that one! In this mall is a Costa Coffee. Fair enough, maybe.
But Joe Public thinks it's OK to amble along the corridor on their way to their appointment supping their large hot beverage of choice. It's a busy hospital and, funnily enough, the corridors are used by people on crutches, in wheelchairs, untethered children, elderly people etc etc.
Has the world gone mad? Do the hospital want more patients? Do they get a cut of Costa Coffee's profits? Why haven't the health and safety people assessed the risk of sick people being burnt by hot drinks?
(wanders off back to her safe little world).
It's me gone mad, you know...
Related there is a little cafe in the A&E depart of Derriford Hospital in Plymouth that does nice cake and a cuppa and run on behalf of a charity too 😀
<always wanted to say this>Won't somebody think of the children?</awtst>
on a related note... Mayday hospital in Croydon has a burger king in the foyer. Costa coffee suddenly seems the sensible option!
Dave
[i]run on behalf of a charity[/i]
WVRS etc have generally been priced out of hospital forecourts. Burger King is doing roaring trade, though.
There is a Burger King also.
wouldn't the Bugger King be better by the Cardiac Unit?
The one in Plymouth is holding on but only in A&E think the chains have moved into the main hospital though, i visit the little cafe each time i go to the hospital though.
Should have late night boozers there too, save the yobs the ambulance ride on a w/end 8)
[i]wouldn't the Bugger King be better by the Cardiac Unit?[/i]
Post-op walk to Burger King essential part of rehab physio.
Nothing wrong with the WRVS (?) running a wee tea shop. But you can't have folk wandering around holding hot drinks!
What pisses me off is the throng of smokers at the main entrance to our local hospital. Puffing away on a L&B while plugged into a drip and an infusion pump. FFS. And some of the women are about to drop a kid (probably their fourteenth).
Burger King in Southampton hospital is just downstairs from the cardiac dept. Handy :o)
Nothing wrong with the WRVS (?) running a wee tea shop. But you can't have folk wandering around holding hot drinks!
Airline pilots have been known to risk a hot beverage in the cockpit 😯
Rubber_Buccaneer - that's where I was! Every time I go there they have added more shops to the mall.
untethered children
Is there not a sign asking for children to be tethered?
Why haven't the health and safety people assessed the risk of sick people being burnt by hot drinks?
Maybe they have, and they decided the sick people would be in bed and not wandering about and that?
Ah, SGH - they had a Boots (actually quite useful), and it was replaced with a clothes shop...
Troll, best thing a hospital can do is to have a costa coffee, it must cheer up the visitors, patients and staff no end, besides most hospitals have burns units.
How, exactly, the****, does the jewellers in SGH stay afloat ?
"here gran, I know you're feeling poorly so I've got you a new watch battery and some cubic zirconium earrings"
😀
I reckon everything is subsidised via the incredibly expensive WHSmiths card section.
I'm with elfin, worlds gone mad...makes life a lot easier once you just accept this...
The hospital just wouldn't work without copious amounts of coffee.
If you are this risk averse i have no idea how you manage to ride a mountain bike.
elaine you clearly need a good poo. If people need to experiment with coffee and walking down a corridor at the same time surly a hospital would be the safest place to start?
you clearly need a good poo
..... and what better than a black coffee and a quick ciggy outside to ease its coming?
CG you should get a job with Injury Lawyers 4U as you have clearly been brain washed by the promoters of the compensation culture
If they have a lid on the cup I don't see the problem.
[i]Injury Lawyers 4U[/i]
Usefully, SGH forecourt also has one of these (or something similar). Everything is thereby catered for: you can spill your hot coffee, be treated [i]in situ[/i] - and then sue!
What pisses me off is the throng of smokers at the main entrance to our local hospital. Puffing away on a L&B while plugged into a drip and an infusion pump. FFS
Hmmm, yep, saw that as well today and it certainly makes me uncomfortable. I won't judge them though.
Is there not a sign asking for children to be tethered?
So many children treat everything as their playground, as do their parents. Mine were kept on reins until 7 years old.
How, exactly, the****, does the jewellers in SGH stay afloat ?"here gran, I know you're feeling poorly so I've got you a new watch battery and some cubic zirconium earrings"
Waves to scaredypants 🙂 Haven't seen that before!
If you are this risk averse i have no idea how you manage to ride a mountain bike.
Never said I could ride. 😯
MrNutt and TheSouthernYeti - no thanks for lowering the tone. 🙄
I've had such a stressful day, icing on the cake was hitting Sainsbury's. Seemed to be a family day out for some, what sad lives some people lead. 🙄
Mind you, the beer's going down a treat now. 8)
I quite like my trips to the supermarket. Highlight of my week in fact. I have to go on my own though. 🙁
(Sparks up a B&H)
Ooh, I feel a poo coming on...
TURTLE HEADING! GANGWAY!
cos when you get a nice latte from starbucks/costa's they're just not that hot!
Elfinsafety - wash your mouth out with soap!
You get a better cup of coffee from C_G Towers. China cup and saucer too. 😉
Don't drink coffee. Makes me want to poo.
"Hmmm, yep, saw that as well today and it certainly makes me uncomfortable. I won't judge them though."
I'm sure they are very grateful, you are so kind.
ha ha, I know you are only joking with this stuff CG!
Right???
*waves back at CG*
(lucky you didn't see me walking down the stairs with 3 cups today)
Kevevs - two of them really did look in a bad way. If by smoking a cigarette, it helps them cope then that's fine. I used to smoke and won't judge anyone that does. I don't like it now but I did it for 20 years.
I'm the last person to take the moral high ground, believe me.
This is a wind up isnt it..I hope its a wind up..
No, it isn't a wind-up. Cinnamon Girl gets herself all worked up sometimes. The other day it was her water bill. Which wasn't that bad actually, quite reasonable. Less than mine that's for sure.
I'm so glad she can't see the scaffolding the council have put up on our block....
would i be wrong if they did get a cut - ony providing that cut went to the greater good fund of the hospital for resources! sick people need coffee too!
But you can't have folk wandering around holding hot drinks!
I have to say we get more slips, trips and falls from our local huge shopping centre than from our own hospital. In the 16 years I have worked in hospitals, I have noticed that people have been able to gain hot drinks from a variety of sources, and it has never really struck me as a major risk. Perhaps modern hot drinks are more dangerous, and drinks from major chains are more sinister? If this is the case they must be banned!
A few years ago I remember a patient popped across the rather busy road across form our A&E to grab himself a pizza at one of the take aways, he had an unfortunate interface with a taxi whilst returning and never made it through the night. Perhaps pizza's are also sinister, and should be banned?
Won't somebody think about the children! ffs.
Ambulance Chasers cards in A and E are a rather unpleasant sight
They really are scumbags and no doubt do very well out of peoples injuries whilst also pushing up the price of insurance
Just like the clampers that enforce the hideously high hospital parking charges
Where I used to live one chap marched a clamper out from his office at gunpoint to unclamp his car.
Clamper actually fouled his underwear, but got the car unclamped pretty quick
Shame that the gunman got jailed for this harmless action
So someone merely doing their job deserves to have a gun pointed at them then? 😯
I hope you never have a gun pointed at you, and fear for your life just for doing your job.
LGI used to have a burger king!
I expect the hospital gets a sizeable rent from the over priced shop and costa coffee, however, I have the utmost support for Costa coffee, since they went 24 hour at Leeds general, my quality of life on nights has improved 10 fold.
Mine were kept on reins until 7 years old.
seriously?
I'd love to say that the hospital does get a sizable rent from these concessions but the truth of the matter is that most don't. Most/All of the hospitals with Costas and Burger Kings will be Private Finance Initiative hospitals which are owned by private companies and simply rented back to the NHS at exorbitant rates.
All the money paid in rent for these concessions will go into the pockets of private business. PFI hospitals are one of the worst things to happen to the NHS in years - don't get me started on what a bad idea they are....
Well, more entertainment so thank you all!
As Elfin says, I do get rather 'worked up' which unfortunately is due to not riding my bike. 🙁
dr_death - gosh, that's an eye-opener. Hopefully they do get plenty of extra revenue from car parking charges?
I suggest you ride your bike CG. Lots.
CG - Again, most don't. When the PFI people build the hospital they usually take over all if its grounds as well and then farm out the car parking to another private company. More profits for private business I'm afraid!
There are a couple of good articles about the mess we have made with PFI un the Guardian this weekend, it's going to end up costing the taxpayer around £65 Billion over the next 30 years for about £10 Billion of investment by the private companies.... I'll dig out the links when I'm back at my desktop.
Just report it to Health and Safety Officer who will assess the situation.
If it is a danger then they will tell security to stop these people bringing in their drinks -besides its not healthy all that sugar and caffine, recycling and more waste costs the hospital - send that to the CFO of the hospital then it will get done.
And relax.
😆send that to the CFO of the hospital then it will get done
you guys !
the mess
Indeed, Dr Death. Especially fugging enraging when you know how hard people are working at the sharp end. And doubly so knowing that most could see this coming. Funny how people deride "Socialism", when NuLab were so happy for our infrastructure to be shafted by private sector interests.
[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/NHS-PFI ]Anger vented earlier.[/url]
SGH - when they contracted out the catering (and replaced patient meals with microwaved stuff), they closed most of the on-site catering/kitchen facilities. Quality in the staff canteen went down, whilst prices (drum roll) went up. Needless to say, megcorp Compass are just fine with that.
CG - See here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/13/nhs-pfi-65-billion-bill-repayments
and here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/14/pfi-wheeze-nhs-funding-problems
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